Beaufort Memorial service set for Frazier

BEAUFORT — Joe Frazier's family and friends are planning a memorial service for the former heavyweight champion in his hometown of Beaufort.

Family friend John Trask said a service will be held at 9 a.m. today at Bethesda Christian Fellowship Temple on St. Helena Island with a public memorial service at noon at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park in Beaufort.

Frazier may forever be linked with Philadelphia, but he never forgot his roots in South Carolina. Friends say he built his strength stacking crates at the Coca-Cola plant and practiced his devastating left hook on bags stuffed with rags, corncobs and moss on the family's 10 acres of land.

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